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Introduction to Linux - A Hands on Guide

This guide was created as an overview of the Linux Operating System, geared toward new users as an exploration tour and getting started guide, with exercises at the end of each chapter.
For more advanced trainees it can be a desktop reference, and a collection of the base knowledge needed to proceed with system and network administration. This book contains many real life examples derived from the author's experience as a Linux system and network administrator, trainer and consultant. They hope these examples will help you to get a better understanding of the Linux system and that you feel encouraged to try out things on your own.

Too many libxxxx and xxxx-devel are missing, a long time to download and install them (if you want to use konstruct to get the latest KDE).
Used Slackware 10.0 up until now and Mandrake is much better in detecting my set of hardware (it took me many many hours to connect to the internet in Slack). Now where can I find the Flux screen saver for mandrake… (not too many of them)

Would you recommend the product? no | Price you paid?: D/L | Rating: 6

Pros:

Very easy to use

Cons:

i'm experiencing many bugs

Well I really like the ease of use of Mandrake 10.1 community, but, ...
there are many many things misbehaving at my computer and it is a basic installation.
Amarok freezes
Quantaplus shuts itself down and when I do it it gives an error message.
I can't use other window managers because they behave very very strange.

I'm waiting for the mandrake 10.1 official release I'll be the first to download the stable version of it. Maybe also because I am a beginner that linux behaves strangely but the many error messages I get speak for themselves.

mandrake 10.1 installed easy without much need from me. when it booted after install, it did not boot in to KDM (KDE login manager). I took a further look in to the problem and found that it had set up the x11.conf wrong. I fixed the problem and then it was all working fine. it is a very easy and nice lookin version of linux. I recommend for people who are switching from windows or mac. Also try SuSE

an easy and atractive install. didn't take too long either. had sufeciant drivers for my hardware and everything works as expected but when recording audio through the sb audigy it comes up as a consistant buzz noise :(

i say this is a fine alt for those who wish to leave windows. all the apps you have to pay money for under windows comes free in this distro i.e. openoffice ect..

i sure with a few driver updates, i.e. nvidia, audigy, and some video codecs, everything would be perfect. oh. and install mozilla so you can install flash player support.

but ofcourse this is the free comunity release that has alot of missing stuff. but i'm still pleased

has some support for linmodems, but doesn't work for most. module that was included was for wrong kernel ver. overall: nice distro, easy to install, great for beginners, many features for more advanced users, hard to get on the internet.

I made the switch to linux because im trying to learn a few programming languages and stuff....

I was completely new to this and it took me about 6 or 7 installs before i figured it out before breaking it. It let me use my laptop touch pad and a USB mouse right away after install. It already had my Ethernet card set up. It was very easy to install.

I previously tried slackware... And it took me a while before i could figure out the install, when it was up and running i couldnt for the life of me figure out what i had to do first to get my network card detected, and my touchpad didnt work.

**If you are a linux Noob... Mandrake is the way to go, it will help you learn the basics, and then you can move up to somthing more powerful out of the box like slackware i guess... if that makes any sense**

For the vast majority of non-Techies, I'd say Mandrakelinux (er Mandriva) would be a wonderful distro. It's probably the easiest Linux that I've seen, from installation to everyday use.

My only drawback came from the fact that I was spoiled by Gentoo and Debian letting me have access to thousands upon thousands of packages, with updates whenever I want, for free. Mandrake, howver, would be one of the few 'subscription model' things that I would be willing to support, if I was using that distro, because of the fact that with all of the other nice features, their large package database would be nice to have access to.

But alas, I didn't have any money the last time I used MAndrake, so I switches back to my current operating system or Debian, where I have been ever since

Have been using lunix for a few years now, and have moved over to mandrake from suse, via trying gentoo...
i found the mandrake installer very easy to use, recognised all my hardware first time and that was it. the only issues i had was with getting it to recognise my portable hard drive, works fine on usb but not on firewire... that and i had to alter the lilo settings so as to run -noapic on boot.

many many packages so long as you add the PLF servers using urpmi (do a web search for "easy urpmi")

Being a cheapskate, I chose the community edition. Works very well, but you need to install things like flash and java yourself. I know it is possible to improve the support for WMV files by dumping some windows DLL's in the right folder, but I can't find out which folder?